Re: [hatari-devel] problems in b/w mode

[Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxx>]

Am Sun, 8 Jan 2012 14:01:38 +0100
schrieb Thomas Huth <th.huth@xxxxxx>:

> Am Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:49:02 +0100
> schrieb Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > On 08/01/2012 13:33, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > 
> > > I fixed it now by setting IoMem[0xff8260] to the same value as
> > > VideoShifterByte during reset. But maybe we should also get rid of
> > > VideoShifterByte completely, since it just mirrors the information
> > > from IoMem[0xff8260] and is hardly used in the code at all.
> > > Nicolas, what do you think?
> > 
> > I agree VideoShifterByte is not useful, it seems to be mostly 
> > historical. At least, it's never used to remove borders, so it
> > should have no side effect on this point.
> > 
> > Only side effect, is that it will change the memory snapshot and
> > next version won't be compatible with current snapshot (but as this
> > changes for every release anyway, this should not be a major
> > problem).
> > 
> > If you think you have time to remove it for 1.6.1, let's do it, else
> > it can be cleared later.
> 
> Ok, there is no hurry here, so let's keep it for 1.6.1 so that the
> memory snapshosts stay compatible with 1.6.0.

FYI: Now that the memory snapshots have been changed, I also removed the
redundant VideoShifterByte variable.

 Thomas